The contest attracted nearly 57,000 contestants nationwide, recording more than 3 million responses, revolving around the theme "Young cadres and English enter the era of national growth".

The competition consisted of 3 rounds. After more than 122,000 initial entries, the Organizing Committee selected the 45 best contestants, divided them into 3 groups to organize the second round. In this round, the teams competed in the form of live and online English presentations, the topic revolving around the article "Future for the Rising Generation" by General Secretary To Lam , then selected 15 contestants to enter the national final round. In the final round, the Organizing Committee divided the teams into 5 groups, each group had 3 contestants; the teams went through 4 competition parts: Introducing the team; answering questions; winning the right to answer questions and group debate in English. After a period of exciting, tense, dramatic competition with attractive score chases, the Star Striders team with 2 out of 3 members representing the Army's youth won first prize.

Nguyen Thanh Binh (front row, second from right) and his teammates received first prize in the competition. Photo: THANH NGUYEN

After the contest, I talked with Nguyen Thanh Binh, one of the two individuals representing the Army who won first prize in the contest and learned that Binh studied information technology at the University of Technology (Hanoi National University). After graduating with a master's degree, Binh "joined the army" at Viettel Enterprise Solutions Corporation (VTS) as an artificial intelligence engineer from April 2024. Although he was trained in technology, Binh's passion since childhood was English. According to Binh, to have the current level of foreign language proficiency is due to regularly watching foreign science and technology programs on TV and social networks. Watching content while learning a foreign language, for Binh, this is also a quite effective way to learn English.

To win the high prize, Binh and his teammates discussed with each other and carefully prepared the content related to recent domestic and international events, especially issues related to the responsibility of youth. Thanks to closely following these contents, the team's question and answer and presentation achieved high scores and won first prize. According to Binh, this year's competition has many interesting new points, because the contestants can attend the "Vietnamese Youth: Mastering foreign languages ​​- integration skills" camp with main activities such as: Discussion "International integration preparation for Vietnamese youth in the digital age"; building a project to "Improving foreign language skills and international integration for local/unit youth"; team building to increase interaction, practice international integration skills... helping the contestants gain a lot of valuable knowledge and experience to apply in practical work.

    Source: https://www.qdnd.vn/nuoi-duong-van-hoa-bo-doi-cu-ho/an-tuong-tuoi-tre-quan-doi-o-cuoc-thi-tieng-anh-1015617